31/07/2023
Fuel Subsidy Removal and Widespread Hunger: Arewa Youth to Commence Protest to Demand Mele Kyari Sack
Arewa Youth to Commence Massive Protest, Thursay.... August, 2023
Gentlemen of the Press,
The Arewa Citizens Watch for Good Governance, (ACWGG), a prominent watchdog group advocating for good governance, both at home and in the diaspora calls you here today to further reiterate our earlier call for the sack of Mr. Mele Kolo Kyari, the GCEO of the NNPCL and heads of the company subsidiaries over the recent increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), which has led to widespread hunger in our region, Northern Nigeria.
Our group believes strongly that the endemic and systemic corruption that the Corporation is known for encouraged the racketeering in the defunct subsidy administration, which ended up lining the pockets of Major marketers with Petro-dollars and further reduced resources available for the usage of the common.
Ladies and gentlemen, as you may be aware, there was artificial fuel scarcity in the significant part of 2022 and early 2023 which led to a build-up of queues in our fueling stations. Miraculously, the queues disappeared immediately after the 2023 general elections.
Most Nigerians believe that the forces behind the scarcity and unwarranted increase in the price of the PMS we're working against the interest of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which ended boomeranging.
The dark forces took the fight to another dimension by persuading the then President-Elect to announce the removal of the subsidy without carrying out a proper situation analysis. This, we believe was done to punish poor Nigerians who willingly voted for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Indeed, Nigerians are serving the artificial punishment which is reminiscent of the hard training our armed forces undergo in Depot or NDA.
We are afraid that should the Tribunal and Supreme Court Justices order for a rerun election today, we doubt if the President can survive it.
With the perceived termination of the subsidy regime, the NNPCL is planning to reaward Pipeline Surveillance Contract to the Tompolo-owned Tantita Security Company. This is a deliberate way of passing vote of no confidence on our Armed Forces, who are working tirelessly to ensure that we are able to sleep with our two eyes closed.
Beyond the cosmetics of the of the recent findings of tapping point in Oil Pipeline by the leadership of Tantita, which coincided with the expiration of his earlier contract, we believe that strong forces in the Company stand to benefit from it.
It is on the strength of the above background that we wish to call on our Members converge at the NNPC Headquarters, Abuja on Thursday, to commence mass civil action that will force the NNPCL supreme ruler to either step aside or be sacked by Mr President.
We understand that things are very tough for our compatriot. They either come out to protest their way to freedom or stay home to acquire Stomach Ulcer which might lead to their ultimate end.
We wish to call on our Security Agencies to mobilise their men to give us the necessary as we exercise our inalienable right to protest.
Thank you and God bless
Aminu Abbas
Publicity secretary
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